Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Why the United States Lost the Vietnam War" video.

@weirdshibainu No the US is pretty good at war. Rather objectively. The difficulty however is more of defining objectives and victory conditions On top of that, the US is just really terrible at occupation. It doesn't know how to actually set up successful governments because it can't come out of its own mindset. Though it has been successful at its nation building efforts in the past. Both with its own territories of the south it was able to reintegrate, and surprisingly, the Phillipines where it was able to put down a revolt, put in a military government, and then relatively quickly put in a civilian government which by 1935 was intended to be a period where they'd transition to full independence (though it was intended to do so 15 years earlier until a political change in the US stopped it from happening).
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@weirdshibainu Why do you say we're only average at war? The only times the US has "lost" is when public perception turned and they voluntarily left. There has never been a military defeat of the US in the strategic domain.
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@marlonmoncrieffe8966 We only ever fought western enemies 3 times. 4 if you count the Civil War given it was also us. But the Spanish might as well not have been a western enemy and was just a very sticky empire who had declined for decades and was mostly killed after Napoleon. So overall I don't really agree with the point here.
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@finnfigure America still has troops in the country. Not to mention how Iran hasn't been in Iraq since the war.
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@saeedvazirian If a country leaves not due to economic or even really social instability at home, and instead due to political change, as compared to a strategic defeat on the ground or economic collapse, what do you call that?
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